Piebald
['paɪbɔːld] or ['paɪbɔld]
Definition
(a.) Having spots and patches of black and white, or other colors; mottled; pied.
(a.) Fig.: Mixed.
Inputed by Enoch
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Motley, mottled, variegated, pied, party-colored, many-hued, many-colored, divers-colored, of various colors.
Typist: Rudy
Definition
adj. of various colours: having spots and patches.
Editor: Murdoch
Examples
- I passed over the last unanswerable utterance of the Betteredge philosophy; and returned to the subject of the man with the piebald hair. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Painted wed, with a cweam piebald. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- THEY must put up with the man with the piebald hair, and the gipsy complexion--or they would get no doctoring at all. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
Checker: Otis